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INDEX

1857,
2
,
21
,
25

2G,
57
,
60
,
89
,
203

‘2G
scandal’,
60
–
1

3G,
52

4G,
209
,
218

‘A Walled and Surveilled World’,
204

A Wednesday
,
201

Aadhaar,
221

aam aadmi
,
28
,
204

Aamir
,
201

Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA),
130

Adler, Mans,
160

advertising,
26
,
30
,
62
,
66
–
70
,
75
,
79
,
80
,
86
,
105
,
187

affirmative action,
30

Afghanistan,
37

Africa,
3
,
5
,
11
,
14
,
54
,
116
,
121
,
158
–
9
,
167
,
216

African National Congress,
158

Aggarwal, Anuradha,
71
,
105

Agra,
21

agricultural labourer, wage of a,
141

agriculture,
103
,
137
,
141

Ahearn, Laura,
179

air pollution,
213

Aircel,
56
,
236
n

Airtel,
33
,
54
,
66
–
7
,
72
–
5
,
94
,
131
,
223
;
see also
Bharti Airtel

Ajeet Singh,
101
–
02

Akbar, Emperor,
20

Akhilesh Yadav,
157

Alcatel,
93

Alexander the Great,
20

All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation (BAMCEF),
146
–
7

All India Post Graduate Medical Entrance examination,
200

All India Radio (AIR),
31
,
39

Allahabad,
24
,
77
,
174
,
178

Allahabad University,
77

Alpha Institute,
103

Amazon,
215

Ambani family,
51
–
2
,
56
,
70
,
74
–
5

Ambani group,
202

Ambani, Anil,
54

Ambani, Dhirubhai,
39
,
54

Ambani, Mukesh,
54
,
202

Ambassador car,
39
–
40

Ambedkar, B. R.,
146
–
7

America Calling
,
89

Amish,
168

Ananda Ranga Pillai,
23

Andhra
Pradesh,
161
,
204
,
222

Anna Karenina
,
216

Apollo Hospitals,
56

‘Arab spring’,
221

Arabic,
219

Arora, Kapil,
68

asbestos,
212

Asian Games, 1982,
29

Assi Ghat, Banaras,
82
,
86
,
132
,
135
–
6

Athreya Committee,
44

Athreya, M. B.,
43

auctions,
36
,
45
–
6
,
49
,
50
–
52
,
54
,
57
,
60

Australia,
ix
-
x
,
xiv
,
7
,
15
,
31
,
104
,
206
,
227
n,
233
n,
237
n

automobile industry,
77
,
123
;
see also
cars

Awadh,
21

Ayyash, Yahya,
205

Babu, Satish,
see
Satish Babu

Backward Classes,
157

Badrinath,
22

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP),
8
,
147
–
57
,
163
,
220

Baiga people,
162

Baltimore,
205

Bambuser,
159
–
60

BAMCEF,
150

Banaras Hindu University (BHU),
80

Banaras,
9
,
65
,
79
,
81
–
4
,
98
–
101
,
103
–
04
,
107
,
123
,
132
–
3
,
136
,
141
,
167
,
169
,
170
–
1
,
174
–
5
,
178
,
180
,
187
,
192
–
3
,
213
see also
Varanasi